Dave Le Fleming
55 Wallis Road Studios
Originating from New Zealand, Le Fleming is currently based in London. He’s had seventeen solo exhibitions and recent group collaborations include; ‘Artists for Dalai Lama’ hosted in Köln & Frankfurt (2009). ‘Jam 3’ Vitry-sur-Seine (2010). ‘Cluster Fits 5′ London (2010).Live art jam at the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (2010). London to Lille (2010).
www.spip.co.nz
Hilary Powell
Mother Studios
In 2007 Powell made the BFI-acquired film ‘The Games’ staging a DIY Olympics on the Olympic site before ODA acquisition. She continues creative critical work in the area within an AHRC Fellowship in Creative/Performing Arts at Bartlett, UCL creating pop-up books, animation and installation in a scenography of ruin/regeneration.
Dean Brannagan
Bridget Riley Studios
Incorporating sculpture, performance, sound, and video, my work is an
ongoing investigation into the internal and external contradictions of human
existence under the social political conditions of brute force capitalism.
James Champion
Britannia Works Studios
I shoot Still life and Fashion and everything in between. I love the area and I’m showing a series taken in and around the Hackney Wick area.
Anna Bruder
Bridget Riley Studios
Artline 130. High Performance.
Jan Manski
Vittoria Wharf
Studios
I would like to open my studio to show a video on a screen and a sculpture
accompanied by a few photos. My studio is situated in Vittoria Wharf at
Stour Rd.
Presented pieces are part of a cycle called Onania. Work is an ironical view
on modern beauty and fashion and advertisement industry.
It is a work in
progress that will be shown at the end of the year with HRL Contemporary.
Jeanette Barnes
Bridget Riley Studios
All my work is based on urban themes. Over the last couple of years I have been working mainly on Olympic drawings and prints charting the development of the 2012 site. Working on pieces over many months, hopefully they go beyond topography towards a more surprising conclusion.
Fran Huesser
43 White Post Lane
Studios
I am an independent fashion and theatre designer. I make bespoke dresses for individuals and theatre companies. I enjoy the eclectic mixtures of artists that reside in the Hackney Wick area and enjoy the creative hubbub.
www.mayd-style.com
Kirsty Dixon
Mother Studios
Kirsty Dixon’s work explores the transformative effect of light, shadow and darkness on objects, spatial surroundings and atmosphere. Kirsty is currently working on a light project at Bow Church to celebrate it’s 700th anniversary, recreating elements of the building lost through its tumultuous history in the form of light shadows and reinforcing it’s connection with the outside community through live stained glass windows.
Rossen Daskalov
Mother Studios
Working in painting, printing and sculpture Rossen creates imaginary figurative compositions that have been informed from intense observational practice into drawing, portraiture and landscape. His work reflects both, formal and inner tensions of the individual confronted with the changing values of the social environment.
Bill Leslie
Mother Studios
Bill Leslie is a visual artist based in London. His work deploys various modes and styles of presentation and juxtaposition, drawing on diverse references including Modern abstract sculpture, 1950s B-Movies, as well as Russian Constructivism and modern architecture. Central to his practice are the ways in which an image, object, or idea develops through multiple processes. Working with film, photography, sculpture, and performance, new forms and compositions are teased out, through transformations of scale, context and media.
Stage Factory
Britannia Works Studios
Stage Factory is back for the third time showcasing visual art exhibition,
photography and contemporary site specific dance performance. This
collaborative project includes works of Karolina Roziecka, Jozef Garcala and
The People Pile. Stage factory bar will offer you amazing cocktails and all
this will be accompanied with wicked tunes of Kat’n’Mouse DJs.
www.stage-factory.co.uk
Wilfrid Wood
Bridget Riley Studios
I make heads, faces and figures mainly out of polymer clay.
Yvonne Riepl
22 Smeed Road
Studios
The Peanut Factory will open up for a weekend show to celebrate the exciting art of photography, painting, music, and the good will of human nature. This is an exclusive event that will bring together photographers and artists of different national and conceptual backgrounds to raise an awareness of humanity and fragile human existence.
www.girlandmachine.co.uk
Nicholas Jones
Cell Studios
The idea of a paradox causes me anxiety. The idea of a harmony suggests beauty.
C
ome join in with the Art Fair on Wallis Road!
www.nicholas-jones.net
Oliver David
Stour Space Studios
Opening up my studio to the Hackney Wicked crowds for the first time
there’ll be photography projects past and current, books and zine(s), lamps
and chandeliers made from recycled materials and 3 inches of artistic
detritus on the floor.
Eva Roovers
Hamlet Industrial Estate
Fascinated by objects, collecting and re-assembling the discarded.
Stripped from any context apart from the photographic set and its art
historical connotation to the still life.
This is where the game and art of Bricolage is being played, new
classifications build and the perception stretched or triggered.
www.evaroovers.net
Ossian Hynes
22 Smeed Road Studios
The Wick Island Junk Hunt: carving through, exploring, investigating,
delving into, finding, stumbling on, scavenging, foraging, spotting, spying,
sleuthing, succumbing, solving, unravelling, deciphering, disentangling, and
getting to the bottom of just about everything Hackney Wicked has to offer.
Liz Elton
Mother Studios
I make work concerned with gesture and loss, often in paint but also
photography, installation and drawing.
Janet Bell
Britannia Works
Studios
Janet Bell uses contemporary materials to paint images – swimmers in action, sunbathers relaxing and canal boats bobbing – freely and with ease. What inspires her is colour, light and people in their environment. She trained at Leeds University and The Slade School of Art, where she also taught.
Pino Trono
Unit 506 Omega Works
Amplicity is a project based on the amplification of the minute and evolve around subjects like totality, society and reality.
Matthew Booth
92 White Post Lane
Studios
Matthew Booth’s work is mysterious without being mystical, analytical without being doctrinaire and beautiful in spite of itself. In all his work there is a deep questioning about what is the nature of a photographic image.
Graham Duncan Elde
r
Mother Studios
STUDIO:Painting:- Portraits. Heads. Abstract Compositions.
ELSEWHERE: Action paintings created in the public arena as painting performance to live Music.
Maryland Studios
Daro Building
We are a group of eleven painters who work in different styles. We have been in Hackney Wick for over 9 years and are located in the Daro Building on the 2nd Floor of the Main Yard, 80-84 Wallis Road. You are most welcome to visit our Open Studios.
Sam Scott-Hunter
41 Dace Road
Studios
Sam’s photographic imagery veers from delicate botanical studio studies to the brutality of the heaviest heavy metal. Once again he’ll be opening his Fish Island studio for the festival, and showing a selection of recent work.
Renee Callahan
Bridget Riley Studios
The East London Knit Studio creates bespoke textiles for any environment. Machine and hand knits, embroideries, crochet and all traditional needle crafts are used to fashion textiles bringing traditional crafts into contemporary contexts, whether experimental installation pieces or recreating your grandma’s favourite jumper.
Nicola Probert
Eastway Laundry Studios
Working in painting, drawing, moving image, sound & performance, Nicola exploits personal narrative to explore psychological spaces between two or more subjects. Nicola has exhibited across Europe, including screenings at Tate Modern in 2010.
She is
a visiting lecturer at University of the Creative Arts.
www.nicolaprobert.com
Lucie Winterson
Eastway Laundry Studios
For me, the starting points are my photographs of natural places. Over
these I work pigments, earths and acrylic wash – tipping and tilting the
surface of the canvas and using big brushes and mops to move the paint
around.
I don’t ‘paint’ so much as facilitate the natural alchemy and movement of
the materials as they interact with each other.
Julie Pickard
Bridget Riley Studios
The basis of my current work is drawing in motion: fast, energetic, drawing a fleeting moment, a connection.Free improv jazz.The musicians play and i draw, guided entirely by the feel and sound of the music, the movements of the musicians, their connection with each other and their music.
Helene Garcia
81 Eastway Studios
Helene Garcia is a French artist who studied at the Central Saint-Martins school in the fine arts section. Her work explores conceptualism in innovative ways. In the work "Untitled", Helene Garcia presents an architecture plan of an impossible place. In this work, one can appreciate the different approach of a space and his circulation.
Francisco Ortega
Mother Studios
The driving force behind my work is a desire to explore the unique
expressive properties of paint. Working in both abstract and simplified
representational art, my work is as much about the process as it is about
the finished product. The themes my work is mainly based on are connections,
contradictions and
dilemmas.
Endri Kosturi
Mother Studios
What are these works – paintings or poems? More to the point, is there any value in separating the two? Kosturi’s approach to communication via the marriage between colour and poetry is unerringly passionate and romantic – both in its language and the palette used to speak it.
James Faure Walker
Bridget Riley Studios
I have been collecting sheet music going back to the 1900s. One from 1950 is
visible in ‘The night the floor fell in’. The dancing figures, cartoonlike,
are next to figures from a 1931 infantry training manual. Generally, the
paintings and digital prints are just shapes, colours, lines and patterns.
Vanessa Mitter
Bridget Riley Studios
I make paintings and drawings, as well as devising performances and writing. I am interested in a use of alter egos and in fictive autobiographies. In all of my practice, I am playing with the gestural and with the performative and exploring their complex history(ies).
Peter Hodges
41 Dace Road
Studios
Maps. Pre-socratic philosophy. Cars.
Everything moves. Everything stays still.
Where am I to begin. For I shall return here again.
www.peterhodges.net
Adam McAlavey
41 Dace Road Studios
These beings exist unseen in our world, they roam the empty streets only visible to machines. Their function and purpose is unknown. We have no way of making contact with them, they are silent and always will be. They have no use for us.
Graham Harwood
Bridget Riley Studios
I am exploring ‘what paint might do’ through works done in series. I am trying to reinvent the landscape tradition.
Workshop
Britannia Works
Studios
Workshop are a collaborative design practice specialising in letterpress,
founded by Alexander Cooper and Rose Gridneff.
Sheena Calvert
Britannia Works
Studios
The .918 press is a workspace for typography/letterpress experimentation,
and facilitates an active engagement with material language, in the form of
books, posters, random ephemera, and miscellaneous printed works. The
Vandercook Universal 1 printing press, and type collection, comes largely
from the USA, and includes numerous metal and wood fonts.
Ruth Calland
Britannia Works
Studios
I am currently making my own version of the Rosarium Philosophorum, a 16
th
century series of woodcuts that portray alchemical transformation. Sexual union becomes a metaphor for the integration of male and female aspects of the self, expressed in the image of a hermaphrodite. The project is envisaged loosely as a series of paintings,
but includes collage, performance and film
.
Paul Dash
Britannia Works
Studios
My paintings speak of that lack of rootedness in a specific cultural or
geographical space. Natural forms, themselves not specific to an
environment, are my leitmotif. The paintings, however, speak of who I am as
a person in the world.
Mick Dean
Britannia Works
Studios
Erosion, both in Nature and the works of man, is the main pivot point of my
work.
www.mickdean.net
Hannah Brown
Britannia Works
Studios
My work centres on the English landscape and the way it is represented and reproduced. I am interested in the paradoxical desire to seek beauty within
the natural environment and then promptly alter it by creating one’s own
version; holding a lasting possession by imposing ones description, thoughts
or ideals.
Dygoro Sasaki
Britannia Works
Studios
An Anthology
Installation Work
by
Dygoro Sasaki
Diana Taylor
Britannia Works
Studios
I am searching for what is lost, collecting familiar and long forgotten
pictures of things thrown away, and yet, deeply embedded in our past.
A sense of journey across the shifting landscape, both physically and
through memory, and the relationship this has with the mass produced images which travel our own consciousness are central to my practice.
The landscape is not static, the ruin is not static, they live on, and
slowly, they change with memory.
Anushia Nieradzik
Britannia Works
Studios
Painter and installation Artist
.
She studied at newcastle College of Art and Central school of Art and Design,London
.
2008: costume designer on Hunger directed by Steve McQueen.
Clive Brandon
Bridget Riley Studios
My most recent series of work, "Strategies, Contingencies and Failures‟ are a series of collages and paintings developed from a chance discovery of a derelict Soviet/Modernist pavilion in Vilnius, Lithuania, and an attempt to retrieve something from the literal ruins of modernism. The resultant works are already aware of the failure of their own aspiration but still cling to a nostalgic appropriation of our utopian desires.
www.cliveabrandon.co.uk
Matthew Lenik
Mother Studios
Mat Lenik’s pen and ink drawings set free the friendly but sinister creatures from the nowhere place. Somewhere between Heinrich Hoffman’s uncanny imaginings, Edward Gorey’s tragic heroes and a tea party filled with smiling, knowing, grotesquely cute, mostly contented, conjoined sideshow freaks. His work has been exhibited in London, Stockholm, Barcelona and Milan, and has been featured in publications such as Dazed and Confused magazine; for which he came first in a drawing competition with over 1000 entries.
www.matthewlenik.com
Eva Bachmann
92 White Post Lane Studios
Fascinated by patches of sunlight in my studio I will play with the illusion of the transitory and the eternal, creating a side specific installation. The exhibition will also feature my work in collaboration with ‘The Hackney Utopians’: Frank Creber & Maria Alvarez Echenique – mixed media, painting and sculpture.
Karolina Magnusson-Murray
22 Smeed Road Studios
Within this body of work I use the idea of serving English Tea to Colombia
men as an arbitrary excuse to enter the participants house, sit down and
sustain an intimate conversation in which I wish to satisfy my intrigue
about the identities of older men. Having never known my father, men of a
certain age pose and represent both a challenge and a mystery. Therefore,
these performances explore identity, intimacy, and a dialogue between
different ages and cultures.
Lisa Cirenza
Mother Studios
I love art: art filled with energy, happy art, ironic art, something that
makes us reflect on current conditions. My art is not the "shock and awe"
art of my contemporaries steeped in today’s ugliness; but more a
contemplative pause, that might give us the strength to find hope,
a hope that might propel us all forward,
and beyond the ugliness…
Soren Mayes
Wallis Studios
My work represents some attempt to express an emotional and personal aesthetic. To abstract, or perhaps to extract energy. I often paint in wild bursts. Frenzied and certifiable. I also paint in bubbles of calm. Relaxed. Meditations and problem solving before the intrusion of frustration, exhaustion and possibly defeat. At other times my mind like jelly – formless –
uncertain
which shape to finally rest on. An emotional sponge in
optimal flow.
www.sorenmayes.com
Frances Sander
Liquid Studios
Our work combines drawing, film and music in live performances.
We draw live using the Tagtool, an electronic instrument developed by a group of Austrian artists.
This year at the Hackney Wicked Festival we are collaborating in our performances with Supraplus, who play psychelic rock.
Vibeke Luther
92 White Post Lane
Studios
My paintings and short animations have a ghosly and perhaps uncanny
atmosphere. I work through a process of cutting up and decomposing sourced and found imagery as spirit photography, cinematic stills, clippings from old magazines and B-movies. The characters and stories in my work hint towards a psycho-social environment with forgotten thinkers and heros,
parodies of historical events, mass media, myths and folklore.
Pandora Vaughan
Eastway Laundry Studios
Is a visual artist whose work is focused on spatial experience and social history. Mixed-media 2-d and 3-d works explore and inform larger built installations.
She studied in Montreal, Nova Scotia and London, gaining a BA in Fine Art, MA Art in Architecture and MA Landscape Architecture. She regularly exhibits in the UK and has built installations extending from Snowdonia to Devon.
Many collaborative projects have been undertaken alongside
the
architect Huw Owen under the
name V&O.
John King
Eastway Laundry Studios
Polychrome sculpture and digital art celebrating the diversity and absurdity of contemporary urban life.
johnkingsart.com
Ieva Ozolina
Vittoria Wharf
Studios
For the HW festival I’m opening my studio to show my experimental clothing I make – using textile dye and screen prints. During the studio opening it will be possible to buy the clothes too.
www.meandyoushop.com
Iain Sharpe
Eastway Laundry Studios
A state of emergency exists in my work, when coherence and certainty collapses in on itself I find it difficult to avoid reportage. Collage
forces displacement through discordance. Previous projects, successful or stalled are copied, cut up and re-assembled giving previous ideas validity or corrupting the old for purely aesthetic purposes.
David Blackmore
92 White Post Lane
Studios
I make work that extracts views of contemporary existence, the result of social & global concerns. I am specifically interested in the idea of control & limitations encountered within daily life. My work is the visual manifestation of an internal resistance against these restraints.
Alice Browne
Mother Studios
My practice reflects on an interest in perceived differences between a world of objects and their representations.I imagine the painting as a place, in which these layered interpretations can converge, exploring what it feelslike to look at something in a space and to be looked back at.
Carla Groppi
Mother Studios
I use the paint for it’s colour and tone and as a sculptural material, so the paintings become reliefs, often extending beyond the shape of the canvas.
Michael Hloušek-Nagle
Mother Studios
"By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass, in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away." ’Knoxville’, James Agee
www.michaelnagle.co.uk
Russell Thoburn
92 White Post Lane
Studios
Parkesine is a floating sculpture made from 2012 recycled bottle tops and lids. It pays homage to Alexander Parkes who invented and manufactured the world’s first plastic (parkesine) in the Wick in 1866.
www.recycled-recreations.com
www.russellthoburn.com
Barton Hargreaves
Mother Studios
Fine Art prints, drawings and installations both outside and in. Wicked!
Esther Ainsworth
Mother Studios
Using sounds collected from public and personal environments they are transformed using technology and interactive media to create a sense of magic and disorder, considering the role of audience participation and networked media.
Mackenzie Scott Clowes
Mother Studios
Icons and anti-icons sit together in a kind of symbiosis. What we adore and fear; what we aspire to and can never achieve are flipsides: small moments of playful familiarity and toy box twee that inhabit our memory and collective dreams with sinister overtones.
Josephine Ada Chinonye Chime
Oslo House
Studios
The recreation of female aesthetic, going against mainstream ideal is the concept that drives my main body of work. Drawing from personal reflections and desires I seek to encourage the viewer to question their prejudices,whilst discovering new details in the unpassive beauty.
Leo Babsky
Mother Studios
My work examines psychological concerns of status, personal and sexual dynamics, attraction and revulsion. Often referencing the formal language of minimalism and post – minimalism, these forms are appropriated with new and unexpected materials.
www.leobabsky.com
James McMeakin
Mother Studios
My work is concerned with cultural specificity and the role that the representation of social and political history has in constructing collective memory and false nostalgias.
Brendan Murphy
Mother Studios
This series of paintings evoke the colours and topography of the earth taken from aerial photographs, contrasting the intimacy of paint with the emptiness of virtual displacement geometries that are normally applied to the backgrounds of increasingly sophisticated video games.
Michael Worobec
Mother Studios
These paintings are visual metaphors for the biological process of reproduction, growth and development. The complexity of personality and identity.
Coco Hewitt
Mother Studios
Coco Hewitt’s paintings and drawings evolve in the making. The landscape marks its way onto the canvas, traces of memories of places real and imaginary. Coco is interested in the process of painting and drawing, of how shadows and light can capture the stillness and a dreamlike quality.
Jean-Mathis Fritsch
Mother Studios
I work in steel/stainless inspiration from contemporary physics and idea or deconstructed observation from nature.
Jackie Simmons
Bridget Riley Studios
Jackie draws using a continuous line, then enlarges the drawings with acrylic paint.
Paul Green
Britannia Works
Studios
"I realised there was a very potent source of images in my life, and that was the house in Pontypridd where I was brought up and where my mum still lived, packed to the rafters with memories. Since 2002 I have produced many watercolours of the interior of this house."
Tana West
55 Wallis Road Studios
Tana West works at a range of scales from installation to objects, making things that are both functional and non-functional. Working predominantly in ceramics she makes creative or resourceful use of whatever materials are at hand (regardless of their original purpose).
Adrian Navarro
43 White Post Lane
Studios
Navarro’s creative processes seek to expand the vocabulary of the visual arts, investigating new mechanisms of intervention in the pictorial medium, including tools from architectural practices.
Steve Jones
Mother Studios
Working as an artist and engineer within the fields of machinery, sound, light, interactive art and product design.
www.cronic.co.uk
Nadine Mahoney
Using portraiture as a theme, the works investigate a fleeting notion of presence -exploring trace and memory though the scale and surface of the painted image.
www.nadinemahoney.co.uk
Arran Bolders
Richie Sands
Ashling Smith
Kathryn Place
Jim Jack
Bernard Rangel
Black Eyed Susan, C.A. Halpin
Double Games, Red In Tooth And Claw, exhibited at Hackney WickED 2010
